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Greta Feeney is an American soprano whose international career in opera, concert, and
recital has taken her from the stages of the San Francisco Opera to festivals and concert
halls across Europe and beyond. Her repertoire spans the Baroque to the contemporary,
and two song cycles have been written for her.

A graduate of the Mannes College of Music, the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music,
and the Juilliard Opera Center, Ms. Feeney holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony
Brook University. At Juilliard she performed leading roles including Tytania in Benjamin
Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Sœur Constance in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues
of the Carmelites, the latter conducted by Julius Rudel and directed by Frank Corsaro.

Ms. Feeney made her international concert debut with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra,
returning as soprano soloist in Joseph Haydn's The Creation. A first-place winner in
the New York district and national semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions, she has received awards from the George London Foundation, the Licia
Albanese–Puccini Foundation, and the Koussevitzky Foundation.

As a Merola alumna and Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera — where she collaborated with conductors including Donald Runnicles and Jiří Kout — Ms. Feeney performed roles ranging from Jano in Janáček's Jenůfa and Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio to Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Marguerite in the world premiere of Lewis Spratlan's Earthrise.

 

Selected to close the company's prestigious Schwabacher Debut Recital series,
she premiered two song cycles written for her — Bruce Rockwell's "Pashtun Songs" and
Daniel David Feinsmith's "Miriam Poems." San Francisco Chronicle critic Joshua Kosman
hailed her as "an immensely promising second-year Adler Fellow" and "a lithe, beguiling
presence," praising her "silver-tipped vocalism backed by considerable tonal heft and
dramatic concision." 

A devoted interpreter of Baroque repertoire, Ms. Feeney has sung the title roles in
Handel's Agrippina and Cavalli's Eliogabalo, and appeared as soloist with the
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Andrew Manze and Nicholas McGegan, the New Century
Chamber Orchestra, the American Bach Soloists, and the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble.
She has performed at the Spoleto Festival USA, toured with Western Opera Theatre, and
recorded The Chocolate Soldier for Newport Classics with the Ohio Light Opera.

Ms. Feeney served as Lecturer in Voice and Director of Opera Theatre at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently Assistant Professor of Voice at Bilkent
University in Ankara, Turkey.